Super Easy Fix for Stuck iPad Home Button
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2021
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Super easy step-by-step way to fix your iPad or iPhone home button if it is stuck or nor responding to your touch.
Is the home button on your iPad not responding to your touch? The home button is the larger round one at the bottom of the screen that you use to wake up your device, go to home screen or exit out of an app. It’s found on most older iPads and even a few of the new ones. And it is even found on some really old iPhones.
If you are pressing it and nothing is happening even though your screen is turned on and lit up then this video will show you how to fix it.
The most common reason your home button is not responding is because it is stuck. This most often happens when something sticky gets worked into the tiny cracks around the edges of the button. If you - like me - sometimes eat when you are using your iPad sticky fingers might just be the culprit. Sticky foods lead to sticky fingers and - you guessed it - this leads to a sticky home button - which eventually gets stuck!
Fear not. There is a simple solution to this very sticky problem.
Step One
Dig around the house for these two very common items. The first is some Q-tips (also know as cotton swabs) or if you don’t have those, a cotton ball. In a pinch you could even use a soft wash cloth.
The second item is isopropyl alcohol (also known as rubbing alcohol). Every house seems to have a white plastic bottle of this somewhere, usually under the bathroom sink! If necessary, you can buy it at any drug or grocery store for a dollar or two. Note we are using alcohol and NOT water because alcohol evaporates very quickly while water might seep into the inside of your device and damage the electronics.
Step Two
Now that you have all the necessary tools let’s get to work. First dip your Q-tip or cotton ball or the corner of your wash cloth in the alcohol. Just make it slightly damp, not soaked. NEVER pour the alcohol directly onto your iPad. Now use damp q-tip (or whatever) to gently work in a circular motion around the edge of your home button. Do three or four of circles and then tap tap tap with a CLEAN finger on the button. We are trying to work it loose as we clean the gunk out of the edges of the button. You might have to repeat these two steps - alternately rubbing in a circular motion and then tapping - several times. It all depends on just how much sticky stuff is trapped in there.
Eventually your home button should start working again. If so I have one more trick for you!
I eat nearly all my meals while reading or looking at stuff on my iPad. So I know it’s just a matter of time before I gum up the home button again. In order to keep that from happening I have placed a little strip of scotch tape over the home button so that it is completely covered. With this in place my home button still works but sticky stuff will never clog it up again.
That’s it! If you found this video helpful, please subscribe to my channel for more tips and tricks. Thank you for watching!
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It worked for me! You have to do it a couple of times and rub it in circles ON the home button, not around it. You have to kinds slide it over to its correct spot. Thank you!
It worked! My granddaughter was caught pushing on mine but this fixed it🎉🎉🎉thank you!
I felt too much talk to get to the point. We know what a home button is and we don't need a long explanation of what sticky foods are, but thanks for taking the time to upload this.
Thanks for this. I'd been using assistive touch thinking it was a bigger issue and now it's fixed!
Thanks sooooo much. This has worked a treat. I can bring an “old” iPad back into action and use it in the garage. You have saved me heaps. Karma 🙏🙏 to you kind sir
Thank you very much - this worked fast.
Thankyouuuu, working smoothly again for now :))
OMG THIS WORKED MY BUTTON WAS LIKE NOT WORKING AND AFTER DOING THIS IT WORKED THANK YOU 🙏
Worked a treat.Thank you
Worked great, thanks.
thankyou, it’s not stiff anymore and now clicky
Brilliant. Success
I didn’t think it would work Ty
THANKS
This worked for my iPad but I tried it for my brothers iPad but it didn’t work,I think I left it like that for too long since it got stuck a year ago-
Thx
Work like charm. Mine took just a few minutes. Let it sit for an hour after rubbing alcohol is used.
No. This isn’t what I meant. Like my home button is literally tilted in my iPad. It is literally stuck some where up under my iPad.
Exactly
ME TOO IT WONT MOVE OR WORK
Same I just found my Old IPad Pro Right now And haven’t used it since August 2023. And I’m having an issue right now. So when I found my old iPad Pro, I went into my room and starting charging it. Then suddenly I’m having an issue right now. Whenever the phone charge sign appears. Then the apple logo appears, it disappears and so it keeps happening the apple logo keeps appearing and disappearing at the same time! So can anyone please let me know how to fix this problem? Thank You!
Worked like a charm. Thanks!
omg you saved my ipads livee😭😭😭
It always sounds like there is some sort of goo in the button
I did something like this and now it’s loose
I can’t use my finger Id either
What about witch hazel will that work?
Good question…I don’t know.
My home button is still stuck did not work.😭😭😭
I accidentally shifted my home button to the side now it's stuck
Didnt work for me
Matt Stonie 😂😂
I licked my home button a few times and it’s not sticky anymore
It worked
I tried it
Thanks - but is no one going to mention the fact you have 144k unread emails!! Haha nice video anyway ☺ - although now I'm just really hungry seeing all that food
“Sticky foods lead to sticky fingers and you guessed it, this leads to a sticky home button.” OH SHIT I ATE A CHILI DOG WITH MY HANDS😭😭💀💀
Or just use electric contact cleaner
wait so where the home button is theres a QR code next to it and its blended so I think thats why its npt working
by the time i found this my home button is on the verge of falling out omg 😭😭😭
I fixed it on my. Own with a pen 😎
2:54 to 3:01 best part of the video. Meow.
If you pause the video first and then hit the 2:54 time stamp, you'll see a freeze frame of the cat getting booped.
Yes
Wait but what if the iPad home button is jammed down?
Try this same fix. It’s likely got something clogging it.
My lord
Maybe Apple Can Fixed My iPads Home Button.
i put my iPad on peanut butter on home button peanut butter doesn’t work
Is James Woods narrating this?
He is!
Isopropyl Alcohol
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It won’t work my iPad is still stuck idk what to do 💀🔫
Same bro
Skill issue not working 💀
Switch off
Me to
go to general -> accessibility -> assistive touch, and enable it
my home button is about to fall off, this did not help!! (THIS IS A JOKE, BUT IT IS GOING TO FALL OFF SOON LOL)
My iPad is stuck on tiktok and the home button isn’t working 💀
Same
Turn it off and turn it on then pull the screen down you will or should see a search button search for what app you want and ta da if it doesn’t work just ask me
Pretty sure I just broke my home button cuz it’s moving around
That’s what mine did it’s not broken
@@fksinfofrfr I mean it works it just like rlly hard to press cuz the home button is kinda inside
WAIT MINE DOES THAT
@@FallingInTheFate tbh just you assist touch
@@FallingInTheFate use*